ABSTRACT
A photograph of footprints has been published accompanying press reports on a fire at Düsseldorf Airport in the afternoon of 11 April 1996. The following lists its publications, dates and places:
Daily Telegraph (London) 13.04.1996 Guardian (London and Manchester) 13.04.1996 The Independent (London) 13.04.1996 The Times (London) 13.04.1996
Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin) 13.04.1996 (detail of the photograph) Die Welt (Berlin) 15.04.1996 Welt am Sonntag (Berlin) 14.04.1996
Bild Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf) 13.04.1996 (detail, horizontal format) Der Kölner Stadtanzeiger (Cologne) 13./14.04.1996 Die Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf) 13.04.1996 Die Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf) 06.06.1996 Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung (Essen) 13.04.1996
The photograph caught my attention. A visual document about a disaster, a blaze in a crowded public space, this photograph comes as surprise. Indeed, it might rather give the impression of belonging to the genre of ‘interesting images’ (offering some kind of visual, often graphic delight, sometimes grotesque, funny or confusing) printed by some papers, typically with no more than a brief caption underneath: the category of image-without-text.
